Due to history's patriarchal perpsective, we may not expect feminist viewpoints from a time so long ago as the Middle Ages. Yet women ... Depictions in original illuminated manuscripts, which ...

The church actually sponsored some of the most beautiful and radical art that emerged in the Middle Ages. A lot of these monasteries had artist studios where monks made illuminated manuscripts.

Visualizing the Virgin Mary — an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles — shows how she was portrayed by artists in the Middle Ages, before ...

Their Chainmail Chair takes a Middle Ages Modern eye to William Katavolos ... that appear in 15th- and 16th-century French paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and Flemish Unicorn tapestries ...

The Middle Ages spanned 1,000 years ... the knowledge of ancient times with beautifully illustrated books called illuminated manuscripts. Copying books by hand was painstaking work.

On display are religious objects, such as mosque lamps, designed to incorporate light into worship, illuminated manuscripts .

At around 232 pages, the book bore no indication of its authors and lacked the luster — and the metal leaf — seen in many manuscripts from the “illuminated” age ... Is the tome a true artifact of the ...

Deathbed and souls tormented in Purgatory in the illuminated manuscript ... one of the infamous robber barons. As in the Middle Ages, the Gilded Age presented fundamental questions about the ...